# 并

| 并 | U+5E76, &#24182; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E76 |
| ← 幵 [U+5E75] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 幷 → [U+5E77] |

## Translingual
### Han character

并 (Kangxi radical 51, 干+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 廿廿 (TT) or 難廿廿 (XTT), four-corner 8044$_1$, composition ⿱丷开 or ⿱䒑廾)

#### Derived characters

* 𰁀

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 340, character 3
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9170
* Dae Jaweon: page 649, character 2
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 242, character 6
* Unihan data for U+5E76

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 鵧 | *bi |
| 駢 | *beːn |
| 胼 | *beːn |
| 骿 | *beːn |
| 軿 | *beːn, *beːŋ |
| 賆 | *beːn |
| 跰 | *preŋs, *beːn |
| 恲 | *pʰreŋ |
| 鮩 | *breŋʔ, *beːŋʔ, *biɡ |
| 絣 | *preːŋ |
| 拼 | *preːŋ |
| 迸 | *preːŋs |
| 姘 | *pʰreːŋ, *pʰeːŋ |
| 皏 | *pʰreːŋʔ |
| 併 | *breːŋʔ, *breːŋs, *peŋʔ, *peŋs, *beːŋʔ |
| 并 | *peŋ, *peŋs |
| 栟 | *peŋ |
| 屏 | *peŋ, *peŋʔ, *beːŋ |
| 箳 | *peŋ, *beːŋ |
| 餅 | *peŋʔ |
| 鉼 | *peŋʔ |
| 摒 | *peŋs |
| 庰 | *beŋs |
| 偋 | *beŋs |
| 艵 | *pʰeːŋ |
| 頩 | *pʰeːŋ, *pʰeːŋʔ |
| 竮 | *pʰeːŋ, *beːŋ |
| 瓶 | *beːŋ |
| 缾 | *beːŋ |
| 蛢 | *beːŋ |
| 荓 | *beːŋ |
| 郱 | *beːŋ |
| 洴 | *beːŋ |
| 蓱 | *beːŋ |

### Etymology 1

* For pronunciation and definitions of 并 – see 並 (“to be side by side; to be in a row; simultaneously; at the same time; etc.”). (This character is the simplified form of 並).
* Notes:Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore.Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

### Etymology 2

* For pronunciation and definitions of 并 – see 併 (“to combine; to amalgamate”). (This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of 併).
* Notes:Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore.Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

#### Usage notes

In ancient texts, 并 may be the same as 併 (OC *breːŋʔ, *breːŋs, *peŋʔ, *peŋs, *beːŋʔ), but not 並 (OC *beːŋʔ). 並 and 併 were differently pronounced in Old Chinese.

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): bīng (bing$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄥ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): bing$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: bīng
*** Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄥ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: bing
*** Wade–Giles: ping$^1$
*** Yale: bīng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bing
*** Palladius: бин (bin)
*** Sinological IPA : /piŋ⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: bing$^1$
*** Yale: bīng
*** Cantonese Pinyin: bing$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: bing$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /pɪŋ⁵⁵/
* Middle Chinese: pjieng
Rime :
| Character | 并 |
| Reading # | 1/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 幫 (1) |
| Final (韻) | 清 (121) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 府盈切 |
| Baxter | pjieng |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /piᴇŋ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /piɛŋ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /piæŋ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /piajŋ/ |
| Li Rong | /piɛŋ/ |
| Wang Li | /pĭɛŋ/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /pi̯ɛŋ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | bīng |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | bing$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*peŋ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*peŋ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 并 |
| Reading # | 1/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | bīng |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ pjieng › |
| Old Chinese | /*peŋ/ |
| English | combine two things |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 并 |
| Reading # | 1/2 |
| No. | 930 |
| Phonetic component | 并 |
| Rime group | 耕 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 并 |
| Old Chinese | /*peŋ/ |

#### Definitions

并
* (～州) (geography) Bing Province (province in ancient China)
* Synonym of 太原 (Tàiyuán, “Taiyuan City”)

#### Compounds

* 并刀
* 并州 (Bīngzhōu)
* 并州剪
* 并州故鄉
* 并邦

## Japanese

| Shinjitai | 并 |
| Kyūjitai | 幷 |

### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 幷)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: ひょう (hyō)
* Kan-on: へい (hei)
* Kun: あわせる (awaseru, 并せる)、ならぶ (narabu, 并ぶ)

## Korean
### Hanja

并 • (byeong) (hangeul 병, revised byeong, McCune–Reischauer pyŏng)
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